Divided Hungary marks 50th anniversary of anti-Soviet uprising

Dozens of world leaders were set to join Hungarians to mark the 50th
anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising, as bitter domestic political
divisions threatened to overshadow the celebrations.
The main right-wing opposition party, the anti-communist Fidesz, was to
boycott commemorations attended by the governing Socialist party, which
was the successor to the Communist party after transition to democracy in
1989.

The move torpedoed efforts to use the 50th anniversary to unite the
country in the spirit of the 1956 uprising, when a peaceful student
protest spontaneously turned into a mass upheaval against Stalinist
oppression.

But on hand to remember the uprising were 18 European presidents and two
prime ministers, the kings of Spain and Norway, and the heads of the
European Commission and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.